Votes for Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment

Marion W. Roydhouse, PhD, is emerita professor of history and founding director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Nexus Learning at Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA.

• Series ForewordPrefaceIntroduction—Women Vote: The Brief Episode of New JerseyChronology: Woman SuffrageChapter 1. A World of Hope: Abolition and Woman's Rights, 1807–1861Chapter 2. The Civil War and the Great Schism, 1861–1870Chapter 3. The New Departure and the Rights of Citizens, 1870–1880Chapter 4. Woman Suffrage Becomes Respectable, 1870–1900Chapter 5. The History of Woman Suffrage and Unification, 1880–1890Chapter 6. Out of the Doldrums, 1905–1915Chapter 7. New Coalitions, New Suffragists, and New Tactics, 1910–1915Chapter 8. The Final Triumph, 1910–1920Aftermath—New Voters: What Changed?Biographical EssaysAbigail Jane Scott Duniway (October 22, 1834 to October 11, 1915)Kate M. Gordon (July 14, 1861 to August 24, 1932)Leonora O'Reilly (February 16, 1870 to April 3, 1927)Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (August 31, 1842 to March 13, 1924)Maud Younger (January 1870 to June 1936)Primary Documents1. The Nineteenth Amendment as passed and ratified, 19202. Sojourner Truth, Address to the American Equal Rights Association (1867)3. Debates at the American Equal Rights Association Meeting (1869)4. Virginia L. Minor's petition to the circuit court of St. Louis County, Missouri, 18725. The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony, 18736. Belle Kearney, "The South and Woman Suffrage," 19037. Jane Addams, "The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women," NAWSA Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, February 7–13, 19068. Caroline A. Lowe, Address to NAWSA Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 21–26, 19129. The New York Campaign, 191510. "Women Must Fight, Says Mrs. Belmont: Suffrage Leader, Ready to Sail for World Convention, Praises Militancy," New York Times, 191311. "Mrs. Brannan Tells of Jail Treatment: Asserts That Women Pickets Were Roughly Handled at Occoquan. Demands Removal of Flag. Believes That Attempt Was Made to Break Prisoners Spirit by Torture of Fear," New York Times, 191712. "Pickets Are Praised: Dudley Field Malone Talks to Mass Meeting in Their Honor," Special to the New York Times, 1917Appendix: Suffrage TimetableSelected BibliographyIndex

The engaging, warts-and-all approach to a broad range of historical figures makes this a good complement to history lessons.